MONROVIA, Calif., July 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- STAAR Surgical Company (Nasdaq: STAA ), a leading developer, manufacturer and marketer of minimally invasive ophthalmic products, today announced that it has been informed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Divis...

MONROVIA, Calif., July 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- STAAR Surgical Company (Nasdaq: STAA ), a leading developer, manufacturer and marketer of minimally invasive ophthalmic products, today announced that it has been informed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Divis...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--Surgical removal of a tissue sample is now the standard for diagnosing cancer. Such procedures, known as biopsies, are accurate but only offer a snapshot of the tumor at a single moment in time.
Monitoring a tumor for weeks or months after the biopsy, tracking its growth and h...

On the occasion of his 100th implantable contact lens (ICL) procedure, Dr. Alan R. Faulkner with Aloha Laser Vision in Honolulu, Hawaii is letting patients know that LASIK is not the only effective way to reduce dependence on corrective eyewear.
(Vocus) March 14, 2009 -...

HOUSTON, Dec. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Access MediQuip, LLC, the nation's first
and largest provider of outsourced medical implantable device management
solutions to the healthcare industry, announced today that it has completed
the industry's first national contract for device benefit management servic...

Headphones for MP3 players placed within an inch of pacemakers and implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) may interfere with these devices, according to research presented at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2008.
Researchers investigated the effects of MP3 player he...

EAST LONGMEADOW, Mass., Oct. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Texcel, a leading
provider of custom medical device development and manufacturing solutions,
has introduced its innovative new StimX programmable, implantable
stimulation system.
Designed for use in the research and development of specialty
sti...

CHICAGO Northwestern Memorial's Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute is one of seven programs in the country participating in new study aimed at improving the heart's pumping action and helping to manage congestive heart failure symptoms. The US PARACHUTE trial tests the effectiveness of placing a smal...

Analysis indicates that one life is now saved for every six patients who receive an ICD
NATICK, Mass., May 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX ) today announced that an analysis of long-term data from the MADIT II clinical study demonstrates that the life-s...

BOSTON, Jan. 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Cataract surgery involves
removing a clouded natural lens from inside the eye and replacing it with a
plastic one. While the operation itself hasn't changed much over recent
years, the plastic lenses have. The biggest advantage of the newer lenses
is ...

...ators (CRT-Ds) to be associated with a significant 29 percent reduction (p=0.003) in death or heart failure interventions when compared to traditional implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs). High risk(1), asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic, New York Heart Association (NYHA) Class I and II(2) patients we...

...- TYRX, Inc., a leader in the commercialization of implantable medical-pharmaceutical devices announced today at ...ors. AIGIS also securely holds a pacemaker (PM) or implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) in order to creat...tified medical device manufacturer, commercializes implantable combination drug/device products, including the A...

...t of these is expected to do so in early June.
About HeartWare International
HeartWare International develops and manufactures miniaturized implantable heart pumps, or Left Ventricular Assist Devices (LVADs), to treat patients suffering from advanced heart failure. The HeartWare(R) Ventricular Assist ...

...ty Modulation is a new treatment for patients with heart failure. Unlike electrical signals delivered by other cardiac devices, such as pacemakers and implantable defibrillators, CCM signals do not initiate a heartbeat. Rather, CCM signals are intended to modify heart cell function in a manner that improves the ...

...ubstrate monitoring. The company has under development a perfluorocarbon therapeutic oxygen carrier and liquid ventilation product (Oxycyte(R)) and an implantable glucose sensor. These products are based upon core technologies that include biomedical applications for PFCs and medical and industrial applications ...

...aceutical industries. Its portfolio includes coatings, drug delivery platforms and a wide range of biomedical materials for use in short and long term implantable medical devices. In drug delivery, DSM employs the Trancerta(TM) Drug Delivery approach which is based on DSM's core strengths in polymers combined wi...

Description: The EBI OsteoGen surgically implanted bone growth stimulator is a useful adjunct for the treatment of nonunions when surgery is already planned or when patient compliance may be a concern. Because the OsteoGen is totally surgically implanted, patients are assured of therapeutic treatment directly a...Company:Biomet, Inc.

Description:... pacing leads, offering the unsurpassed handling advantages, performance, and reliability evident in St. Jude Medical's line of active-fixation leads. implantable with a 7 F introducer, the reduced body diameter of the Tendril SDX lead is designed to lower the incidence of venous obstruction and allow introducti...Company:St. Jude Medical, Inc.

Description:... pacing leads, offering the unsurpassed handling advantages, performance, and reliability evident in St. Jude Medical's line of active-fixation leads. implantable with a 7 F introducer, the reduced body diameter of the Tendril SDX lead is designed to lower the incidence of venous obstruction and allow introducti...Company:St. Jude Medical, Inc.

Description:... pacing leads, offering the unsurpassed handling advantages, performance, and reliability evident in St. Jude Medical's line of active-fixation leads. implantable with a 7 F introducer, the reduced body diameter of the Tendril SDX lead is designed to lower the incidence of venous obstruction and allow introducti...Company:St. Jude Medical, Inc.

Description:... The ITREL 3 is a battery powered implantable device that is commercially available in the U.S.
Enterra™ Therapy is indicated for the treatment of chronic nausea and vomiting associated w...Company:Medtronic Gastroenterology

Description:... The new 4351 Intramuscular Lead is a unipolar lead intended for use with an implantable neurostimulator. The 4351 lead has a ski needle design for easier use with laparoscopic procedures. It is also designed with a fixed electrode length ...Company:Medtronic Gastroenterology

Description:...tolerate more conservative treatments. Medtronic developed InterStim Therapy using more than 13 years of experience in neurostimulation therapies. The implantable InterStim System uses mild electrical stimulation of the sacral nerve that influences the behavior of the bladder, sphincter, and pelvic floor muscles...Company:Medtronic Urology/Urogynecology

Description:... The Frontier device is a multi-site, implantable biventricular pacing device with one atrial and two ventricular ports for patients with chronic atrial fibrillation (AF) who have undergone an AV node...Company:St. Jude Medical, Inc.

... An implantable cardioverter -defibrillator (ICD) is a small batte...ventricular fibrillation. The device is... An implantable cardioverter defibrillator is used in patient...ion. ... greatest advance in this area is the implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) ... Related ...

...to stop pumping blood around the body... An implantable cardioverter defibrillator is used in patients ... This Answers by Heart sheets discusses what an implantable defibrillator is, how it works and provide tips ...uestions about defibrillator and more! ... This implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) monitors for a...

Scientists are closer to understanding how to grow replacement bones with stem cell technology, thanks to research published today in the journal Nature Materials .
Many scientists are currently trying to create bone-like materials, derived from stem cells, to implant into patients who have d...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--Surgical removal of a tissue sample is now the standard for diagnosing cancer. Such procedures, known as biopsies, are accurate but only offer a snapshot of the tumor at a single moment in time.
Monitoring a tumor for weeks or months after the biopsy, tracking its growth and h...

A team of researchers led by North Carolina State University has made a breakthrough that could lead to new dialysis devices and a host of other revolutionary medical implants. The researchers have found that the unique properties of a new material can be used to create new devices that can be imp...

PITTSBURGHDozens of engineers and doctors from universities and industries around the world will collaborate on a five-year, $18.5 million project announced Sept. 4 to develop implantable devices made from biodegradable metals. The devices will be designed to adapt to physical changes in a patient...

Physicians and surgeons will someday monitor a patient's blood flow, blood pressure and temperature with tiny, implanted devices, thanks to research being conducted by a Cornell University professor and an Ithaca-area high-tech firm.
This new technology is being developed by Edwin Kan, associat...

...t's stunning how similar the two things are," said Srinivasarao.
Miniature optical devices and photonics such as those envisioned for microlasers and implantable medical sensors could benefit from the finding. Scientists already are studying ways to commercialize and apply materials that have properties similar...

...ch as implants and prosthetic limbs, devices to monitor the physiological state of patients, and instruments to maintain bodily functions, such as the implantable pacemaker. As both medicine and engineering continue to advance at great pace, it is crucial that the links between these disciplines are maintained, ...

... normal cells. Based on this method, they have proposed that cancer cells possibly could be sequestered permanently in a sort of "cancer trap" made of implantable and biodegradable materials.
The demonstrated device, which takes advantage of a physical principle called ratcheting, is a very tiny system of ch...

... The probe could be used both as a research tool in the development of next-generation cancer treatments and as a nanomanufacturing tool to build the implantable drug delivery devices that will apply these treatments. The potential of nanomaterials to revolutionize drug delivery is emergent in early trials, whi...

... Grattoni, experiment project manager and senior research assistant in Ferrari's lab.
Results of these experiments could aid in the development of implantable devices for controlled, long-term drug release. This research could yield important treatment means for illnesses, including cancer, said Grattoni, a ...

...nor record maintenance and traceability with the OCBG procurement program. Osteotech's processing facilities, which process the OCBG donor tissue into implantable tissue products, were also inspected by afssaps, and the agency indicated that its inspection resulted in no audit findings.
"None of the aud...

...nters in Europe, including the German Heart Center in Munich where the first three patients were successfully treated.
Algisyl-LVR is an implantable medical device under clinical development intended to prevent or reverse the progression of congestive heart failure in patients with dilated cardiomy...

...neers and other researchers involved in the development of silicone-based combination products. Combination products are a new FDA defined category of implantable medical devices that release drugs into the body in a controlled manner. Combination products represent a new and rapidly expanding area of life-savin...

...e company has under development a perfluorocarbon (PFC) therapeutic oxygen carrier and liquid ventilation product (Oxycyte(R)) and has out-licensed an implantable glucose sensor. These products are based upon core technologies that include biomedical applications for PFCs as well as medical and industrial applic...

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